I think everybody here started because of Kaze.
I like to think that Kaze may have been a nerdy little twig that got bullied in second grade, then one night found his father’s weight set, went back to school a few weeks later, and ripped the bully in half like a phonebook.
after that he just kept pumping iron until he took the life of every man/virginity of ever woman he met.
I’m not really body building. I’m training for specific purposes. I’ve always enjoyed physical activities. I’ve been skilled at sports and enjoyed keeping active. I don’t want to end up and out of shape guys the struggles to do anything physically demanding. I’ve been focusing on MMA training ( even though I’m not much good at it ) and do participate in some local competitions. It’s a lot more complicated than most people think. I have a background in boxing, and wrestling. I fail bad against a lot of developed styles out there, and I am balancing learning defense against these fighting styles with getting as much a I can from my body.
I didn’t really know how else to put it, but consider it fix’d now.
So you started working out to compliment your training in boxing?
Who the hell runs a marathon without knowing about it? I mean we are talking about a real marathon? 26 miles?
The realization that I actually need this came to me completely by itself when I was finishing school. I just looked at myself and other guys in the class who’ve been going to gym for 2 or so years by that moment. And I were like, “You know, why the fuck shouldn’t I get myself a proper body?”.
So I just went and asked my buddies what gym were they attending.
God I wished I’d came to that realization MUCH earlier.
And when I finished my very first workout (shit, we were doing some leg press) - I’m safe to say I never had so much sense of accomplishment. The fact that you can enjoy yourself doing this is the most important to me.
Fuck those rats who go there once a month solely for a lame and pathetic attempt to appeal an opposite sex.
Something like that, yes.
No, I have trained in various ways my whole life. Earlier on it was for hockey. Now it’s for fighting, and I have focused my training to be a bit more specific. Before it was just general physical activities and some weight training without really knowing what I was doing.
Now I’d like to do it a little more…‘the right way’ I guess you could say. I wouldn’t say I have natural skill at fighting as I do with most other sports, so I rely on training hard and learning as much as I can to get better.
I started lifting in my required PE class way back in 9th grade (six years ago), and I liked it, so I kept doing it. I actually smiled at a lot of the quotes that Kaze pulled out in his original post, especially about friends coming and going, but 200 pounds always being 200 pounds.
Lifting is a me-thing… when I lift, it’s for me, and no one else. I lift because it makes me feel good. And DON’T misread that as “it makes me feel good about myself.” It just makes me feel good. When I leave the gym trembling, and can barely make it up or down a flight of stairs for the next four hours, that gives me a fantastic runner’s high.
I’m 5’11" and 200 lbs (on a good day… my weight has been fluctuating a lot recently, probably because I’m unemployed and running out of money for food), so I’ve done pretty well for myself. Not on Kaze’s level, obviously.
Amazing thread, btw. There’s some great info in here. I’m just starting to get back into squatting after getting out of PT for a minor back injury (bad genes… nothing lifting-related. We think it’s an extra vertebrae in my lower back), but I truthfully haven’t done a deadlift in at least two years, and I haven’t done a clean in even longer. Now I’m excited to work 'em back in.
EDIT: How about an actual question… SHOULDERS. I’ve tried a bunch of different exercises, but I haven’t really been able to add much mass to my delts. Any suggestions?
Kaze - 2009’s Charles Atlas
Oh yeah I’d like to know too.
Nah, but Atlas stones are a crazy workout.
Regarding squats, is it alright if my feet are wider than shoulder width? I just find more stability that way.
I wonder… I guess it’s no good if you do that. With less stability you have to keep your balance yourself, meaning you train more muscles by keeping your balance. But that’s just based on reasoning and high-school physiology and biology.
But like honestly, I can’t squat for shit. Just ignore weight training for a sec and say you have to squat down do something, say tieing a shoelace. I can’t squat flat on my feet because I’d fall backwards. Instead I balance on what is literally the underside of my toes. Makes it very hard to use those squat toilets when I go overseas :’(
I consulted with my surgeon the other day, and he said an easier and quicker alternative to all this busywork of tearing your muscles and letting them reheal is to simply get silicone muscle implants. What are your thoughts on these- does the 10 hour intensive Wolverine-like invasive plastic surgery count as a 10 hour session of working out? I think it might.
Lol, muscle implants. The thing is, if you get them, you still need to work out in order for the implants to stay put. Something like that atleast.
It is ridicously expensive. And you only get half the fun of real muscles.
I think “being able to pick up fly honeys” is the ONLY point of having real muscles, and these suit that purpose just fine.
Military press, lateral raise, military press, chest fly, bent over lateral raise, military press, military press.
Since there are three sets of fibers in your delts, there are shitloads of pressing and raising exercises that more or less hit your delts.
Therefore, concentrate on your whole body, not on a single muscle.
Im not sure if you would know much about this…but
Ice bath vs. active cooldown?
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